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Climate Smart Farming

Farmers are in a unique position to be part of the solution to combat climate change. Understanding their challenges to adopt sustainable farming practices is crucial to help them reduce emissions and increase farm resilience. BASF is part of the European Carbon+ Farming Coalition to drive this important topic which is fully in line with our global commitments to boost sustainable agriculture. We are dedicated to support farmers to decrease their environmental impact, improve farm resilience and sequester carbon in the soil. Moreover, we believe that partnerships are the cornerstone to accelerate the path towards carbon neutrality in the food value chain.

What impacts do we aim for?

Infographic explaining the different impacts climate smart farming for

How do we achieve these impacts?

We are helping farmers tackle the most pressing climate challenges with the right combination of technologies.  Our technologies include nitrogen management products that improve fertilizer efficiency. Herbicide products that enable minimum tillage, reducing both carbon emissions and diesel use. New crop varieties that enhance yield and are more stress-resilient. Natural biological inoculants. And innovative digital solutions.

What target did we set for ourselves?

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Climate Smart Farming – Examples of our products and technologies

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Nitrogen Management

 

Nitrogen fertilizers are vital for crop production but also emit greenhouse gases (GHG) during their application.  Treating these fertilizers with our nitrification inhibitors optimize yield and reduce GHG emissions up to 30% per ton of crop.

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Herbicides Enabling Minimum Tillage

Herbicide use promotes conservation and no-till farming practices leading to improved soil and air quality and water availability. Our herbicides allow for minimum tillage with up to 10% fewer CO2 emissions per ton of crop produced. 
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Hybrid Wheat

 

Our scientists are developing resilient hybrids across wide range of environments. Significant yield increase and improved grain quality for enhanced profitability means farmers can produce more on the same land, thereby protecting biodiversity.

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InVigor Canola

InVigor hybrid canola’s patented Pod Shatter Reduction technology can provide higher yield protection under severe weather conditions. Straight-cutting can result in one less pass across the field which results in less fuel, equipment and labour costs. 
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Lark Loaf Project

How to make biodiversity relevant to business

Farmers get attractive rewards for setting up two skylark plots per hectare on their winter wheat fields. Sustainable approach to agriculture that combines high productivity and the conservation of natural resources.

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xarvio HEALTHY FIELDS is a unique outcome-based digital solution that provides a tailored, field and season specific crop protection strategy for winter wheat that guarantees leaf health and yield success at the start of the season for a fixed price.

xarvio™ FIELD MANAGER

Digital farming solution for field zone-specific crop management strategy – from seeding right through to harvesting.  Optimized crop protection through Advanced Agronomic Decision-making engine (ADE). Currently more than four million hectares managed with xarvio FIELD MANAGER worldwide.
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AgBalance: Impact categories on a farm

AgBalance®

Sustainability assessment can help farmers address environmental challenges like climate change or loss of biodiversity while balancing business interests and social responsibility. One example of how we support farmers is by measuring the carbon footprint of their farming operation with AgBalance.  
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Inoculants' Beneficial Microorganisms

An inoculant effectively delivers a beneficial microbe to the seed or soil to increase the nitrogen availability and health of a crop. They are a powerful ally for legume growers worldwide.
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Learn more about our sustainability commitments

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Sustainable Solutions

7% annual increase in our share of solutions with substantial sustainability contribution
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Die Technologie zur automatisierten Bilderkennung kann, beispielsweise unterstützt von Drohnen, die Art und Menge von Pflanzen, Schädlingen und Krankheiten in Gewächshaus- und Feldversuchen erkennen.

Digital Farming

400+ million hectares supported with digital technologies by 2030
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Das easyconnect-System bietet eine überzeugende Kombination aus Sicherheit und Einfachheit bei der Handhabung von flüssigen Pflanzenschutzmitteln und reduziert potenzielle Risiken des Verschüttens und Spritzens während des Einfüllens in die Pflanzenschutz-Einspülschleuse.

Smart Stewardship

Safe use of our products with the right stewardship
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BASF Climate Protection Goal

We work continuously to further reduce emissions from our production. We have set ourselves ambitious quantitative goals to this end.
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Píngo Doce Watermelon

 

The Píngo Doce watermelon project combines customer demands for sweet taste and few seeds with farmer needs to produce sustainably.

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Revysol® Fungicide

 

Revysol based products provide European wheat farmers with up to 4% yield increase on existing land, allowing the protection of natural habitats.

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A monarch butterfly takes shelter in a habitat created by the Living Acres initiative. Monarchs need milkweed and other nectar plants to complete their lifecycle. By creating more milkweed habitat across the United States, CHS and BASF are helping to boost the monarch butterfly population.

Living Acres #MonarchChallenge

Through the Living Acres #MonarchChallenge, we are doing our part to help restore the monarch butterfly population in the United States.
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Mata Viva®

 

A collaboration united in the desire to protect water quality, conserve soil and create areas to preserve native vegetation and wildlife in the forest along the Paraiba do Sul River (Brazil).

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On the English farm "The Grange”, modern agriculture and the protection of biodiversity go together. The farm is supported by the European Farm Network, a BASF partnership with experts for agriculture and nature protection. Farmers, experts for agriculture and for nature conservation join their knowhow and create measures for sustainable and productive farming. One of the measures is the planting of flower strips in unprofitable field areas. Apart from the high yielding fields for cereal production, new habitats for wildlife are created. Andrew Pitts, UK farmer (left), and Graham Hartwell, Environmental Stewardship, BASF (right), examine the development of the flowering strips.

Farm Network

 

Working together to create solutions for sustainable agriculture.  Independent farms serve as outdoor classrooms where emphasis is placed on biodiversity and soil health.

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